[R] List indexing question

[David Perlman]

Consider the following:
> x<-list(c(1,2,3),c(4,5,6))
> x[1]
[[1]]
[1] 1 2 3

> x[2]
[[1]]
[1] 4 5 6

So far that all seems reasonable.  But now there's a problem.  I'm used to python, where I would say x[2][1] and get the value 4.  But I can't figure out how to do that in R.

> x[2][1]
[[1]]
[1] 4 5 6

> x[2,1]
Error in x[2, 1] : incorrect number of dimensions

I have no idea why x[2][1] returns the same thing as x[2]; that makes no sense to me at all.

What is the proper syntax for what I'm trying to do?

Thanks!


-dave----------------------------------------------------------------------
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